"The film received mixed reviews, although Pacino later said he enjoyed playing the part. Janet Maslin in ""The New York Times"" wrote, ""Mr. Pacino has not been this uncomplicatedly appealing since his ""Dog Day Afternoon"" days, and he makes Johnny's endless enterprise in wooing Frankie a delight. His scenes alone with Ms. Pfeiffer have a precision and honesty that keep the film's maudlin aspects at bay."" In 1993, Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his portrayal of the blind U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Martin Brest's ""Scent of a Woman"". That year, he was also"
"Al Pacino Alfredo James Pacino (; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker. Pacino has had a career spanning more than five decades, during which time he has received numerous accolades and honors both competitive and honorary, among them an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts. He is one of few performers to have won a competitive Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony"
"for Pacino blamed his former business manager Kenneth Starr for the discrepancy. Pacino has been nominated and has won many awards during his acting career, including eight Oscar nominations (winning one), 17 Golden Globe nominations (winning four), five BAFTA nominations (winning two), two Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on television, and two Tony Awards for his stage work. In 2007, the American Film Institute awarded Pacino with a lifetime achievement award and, in 2003, British television viewers voted Pacino as the greatest film star of all time in a poll for Channel 4. Al Pacino Alfredo James Pacino (;"
"Pacino was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Other notable roles include Tony Montana in ""Scarface"" (1983), Carlito Brigante in ""Carlito's Way"" (1993), Lieutenant Vincent Hanna in ""Heat"" (1995), Benjamin Ruggiero in ""Donnie Brasco"" (1997), Lowell Bergman in ""The Insider"" (1999), and Detective Will Dormer in ""Insomnia"" (2002). In television, Pacino has acted in several productions for HBO, including the miniseries ""Angels in America"" (2003) and the Jack Kevorkian biopic ""You Don't Know Jack"" (2010); he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for each role. In addition to"
"(1990), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, ""Kafka"" (1991), ""Damage"" (1993), ""M. Butterfly"" (1993), ""The House of the Spirits"" (1993) appearing again with Glenn Close and Meryl Streep, the voice of Scar in ""The Lion King"" (1994), portraying Simon Gruber in ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"" (1995), co-starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, Bernardo Bertolucci's ""Stealing Beauty"" (1996), the 1997 remake of ""Lolita"", and as the musketeer Aramis opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1998 film version of ""The Man in the Iron Mask"". Other roles include the evil wizard Profion in the film ""Dungeons and"
"voiceovers and their likenesses, but Pacino did not. Francis Ford Coppola openly voiced his disapproval of the game. The Godfather The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Albert S. Ruddy, based on Mario Puzo's best-selling novel of the same name. It stars Marlon Brando and Al Pacino as the leaders of a fictional New York crime family. The story, spanning 1945 to 1955, chronicles the family under the patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando), focusing on the transformation of Michael Corleone (Pacino) from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss. Paramount Pictures obtained"
"and wide-spread commercial success. It quickly became Soderbergh's highest-grossing movie to date, grossing more than $183 million domestically and more than $450 million worldwide. ""Rolling Stone"" credited the movie with ""[spawning] a new era of heist movies"". In the same year, Soderbergh made ""Full Frontal"", which was shot mostly on digital video in an improvisational style that deliberately blurred the line between which actors were playing characters and which were playing fictionalized versions of themselves. A year later, he was asked by executives at Warner Bros Studios to direct the psychological thriller ""Insomnia"" (2002), starring Academy Award winners Al Pacino,"
"during a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 6, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Sharon Stone. ""Unforgiven"" won four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director for Clint Eastwood, and Best Supporting Actor for Gene Hackman. Al Pacino and Emma Thompson won lead acting honors for ""Scent of a Woman"" and ""Howards End"", respectively. Marisa Tomei won Best Supporting Actress for ""My Cousin Vinny"". The telecast garnered 45.7 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 65th Academy Awards were announced on February 17, 1993, at the Samuel"
"Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Rehme, president of the Academy, and actress Mercedes Ruehl. ""Howards End"" and ""Unforgiven"" led all nominees with nine nominations each. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 29, 1993. Best Director winner Clint Eastwood became the seventh person nominated for lead acting and directing for the same film. Best Actor winner Al Pacino was the sixth performer to receive nominations in the lead and supporting categories in the same year. He also became the first person to win in the lead acting category after achieving the aforementioned feat. By"
"complete a film; Petersen believes that this is why Mann does not make films very often. He gained widespread recognition in 1992 for his film adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's novel into the epic film ""The Last of the Mohicans"". His biggest critical successes in the 1990s began with the release of ""Heat"" in 1995 and ""The Insider"" in 1999. The films, which featured Al Pacino with Robert De Niro in ""Heat"" and Al Pacino and Russell Crowe in ""The Insider"", showcased Mann's cinematic style and adeptness at creating rich, complex storylines as well as directing actors. ""The Insider"" was"
"Awards and won two: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Al Pacino and Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie, or Dramatic Special for Adam Mazer. Pacino also won the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance. You Don't Know Jack (film) You Don't Know Jack is a 2010 made-for-television biopic written by Adam Mazer and directed by Barry Levinson. It stars Al Pacino, John Goodman, Danny Huston, Susan Sarandon, and Brenda Vaccaro. The film dramatizes the efforts of former Oakland County, Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian (Pacino) to help the terminally ill and"
"Award for acting, dubbed the ""Triple Crown of Acting"". A method actor and former student of the HB Studio and the Actors Studio in New York City, where he was taught by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg, Pacino made his feature film debut with a minor role in ""Me, Natalie"" (1969) and gained favorable notice for his lead role as a heroin addict in ""The Panic in Needle Park"" (1971). He achieved international acclaim and recognition for his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's ""The Godfather"" (1972) receiving his first Oscar nomination and would reprise the role"
"Pierson) as well as the British Academy Award for Best Actor (Al Pacino). The film is also #70 on AFI's ""100 Years... 100 Thrills"" list. Also Al Pacino's quote, ""Attica! Attica!"" placed at #86 on AFI's ""100 Years...100 Movie Quotes"". It was nominated for AFI's ""100 Years...100 Movies"" in 1998 and 2007. In 2006, ""Premiere"" magazine issued its ""100 Greatest Performances of All Time"", citing Pacino's performance as Sonny as the 4th greatest ever. In 2012, the Motion Picture Editors Guild listed the film as the 20th best edited film of all time based on a survey of its membership."
"""Salome"" (1992) with Al Pacino at the Circle in the Square Theatre; ""Titus Andronicus"" (1994) with the Theatre for a New Audience, directed by Julie Taymor; ""Macbeth"" (1994) at the Classic Stage Company, directed by Jack Stehlin; and ""Arms and the Man"" (1995) in Hartford, Connecticut, directed by Mark Lamos. He appeared in a supporting role in the Daniel Day-Lewis-starring historical epic ""The Last of the Mohicans"", which was released in the United States on 25 September 1992. On American television, he appeared in ""Loving"" (1992), ""South Beach"" (1993), ""New York Undercover"" (1996), ""Swift Justice"" (1996), and ""Liberty!"" (1997). In"
"1982 also saw the release of Disney's ""Tron"" which was one of the first films from a major studio to use computer graphics extensively. American independent cinema struggled more during the decade, although Martin Scorsese's ""Raging Bull"" (1980), ""After Hours"" (1985), and ""The King of Comedy"" (1983) helped to establish him as one of the most critically acclaimed American film makers of the era. Also during 1983 ""Scarface"" was released, which was very profitable and resulted in even greater fame for its leading actor Al Pacino. Probably the most successful film commercially was Tim Burton's 1989 version of Bob Kane's"
"Film Speeches and Monologues. MSN Canada noted that the whole phrase is one of the top 10 ""misquoted movie lines"". The film received two Academy Award nominations. Al Pacino was nominated for Best Actor (in a lead role), and Valerie Curtin and Barry Levinson were nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Pacino was also nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance. The line """"You're"" out of order! ""You're"" out of order! The ""whole trial"" is out of order! ""They're"" out of order!"" has been parodied many times in popular media. Homer Simpson's bedroom rant to Marge in ""The Simpsons"" episode"
"in Francis Ford Coppola's ""The Godfather"" and Frank Serpico in Sidney Lumet's ""Serpico"", his portrayal of Frank Slade finally earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. The film was beloved by critics who along with Pacino's performance singled out Goldman's screenplay: Janet Maslin – The New York Times: Roger Ebert – Chicago Sun-Times: The film has an 88% score on the critic site Rotten Tomatoes. Next up was Harold Becker's ""City Hall"" (1996) again starring Al Pacino and also John Cusack. Pacino played the corrupt Mayor of New York City. The film is peppered with musical theatre references –"
"received numerous award nominations. Al Pacino won Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild awards for his performance as Kevorkian. It received largely positive reviews and currently has a 90% rating at the aggregate film review website ""Rotten Tomatoes"". Prompted by the plight of David Rivlin, a quadriplegic who litigated to be removed from his respirator so he can die, the sight of a dying woman in a hospital bed, and the memory of his mother Satenig's death over two decades earlier, Dr. Jack Kevorkian builds his first ""death machine"". out of parts bought at a flea market. He"
"gone back to the stage was that my movie career was waning! That's been the kind of ethos, the way in which theater's perceived, unfortunately."" Pacino returned to film in 1989's ""Sea of Love"", when he portrayed a detective hunting a serial killer who finds victims through the singles column in a newspaper. The film earned solid reviews. Pacino received an Academy Award nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in the box office hit ""Dick Tracy"" in 1990, of which critic Roger Ebert described Pacino as ""the scene-stealer"". Later in the year he followed this up in a return to"
"testified against him, he later said, ""I'll get that motherfucker Donnie if it's the last thing I do."" In 1992, sick with lung and testicular cancer, Ruggiero was released from prison after serving 11 years. On November 24, 1994, Benjamin Ruggiero died of lung cancer at the age of 68. A character named Ruggiero was portrayed by Al Pacino in the 1997 film ""Donnie Brasco"". For dramatic purposes, the film combines traits of the real Ruggiero and the real Dominic ""Sonny Black"" Napolitano. The film ends with the implication that Ruggiero is about to be killed for allowing Pistone to"
"goal is to provide a creative platform for three great artists. While there may be many disparate interpretations of the film’s intentions, we feel the film speaks for itself."" The film was nominated for eleven Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Miniseries or Movie, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for Al Pacino, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Helen Mirren, and Outstanding Directing and Writing for a Miniseries or Movie for David Mamet. The film has also been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film (Pacino) and"
"Film Guide"" as ""intense"" and ""tightly clenched"". Pacino boycotted the Academy Award ceremony, insulted at being nominated for the Supporting Acting award, as he noted that he had more screen time than co-star and Best Actor winner Marlon Brandowho also boycotted the awards, but for unrelated reasons. In 1973, Pacino co-starred in ""Scarecrow"", with Gene Hackman, and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. That same year, Pacino was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor after starring in ""Serpico"", based on the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico, who went undercover to expose"
"nominated for Best Supporting Actor for ""Glengarry Glen Ross"", making Pacino the first male actor ever to receive two acting nominations for two movies in the same year, and to win for the lead role. Pacino starred alongside Sean Penn in the crime drama ""Carlito's Way"" in 1993, in which he portrayed a gangster released from prison with the help of his lawyer (Penn) and vows to go straight. Pacino starred in Michael Mann's ""Heat"" (1995), in which he and Robert De Niro appeared on-screen together for the first time (though both Pacino and De Niro starred in ""The Godfather"
"his Sicilian childhood to the founding of his family enterprise in New York City. ""The Godfather Part II"" opened to divided reviews from critics. Its reputation, however, improved rapidly and it soon became the subject of critical reevaluation. It was nominated for eleven Academy Awards, and became the first sequel to win for Best Picture. Its six Oscar wins included Best Director for Coppola, Best Supporting Actor for De Niro and Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola and Puzo. Pacino won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Both ""The Godfather Part"
"haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg. As the film continues, these lost souls come together to create bonds of love, loss, and loneliness and in the end, discover forgiveness and overcome abandonment. The soundtrack of the series by Thomas Newman was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Cary Brokaw, executive producer of the series, worked for over ten years to bring the 1991 stage production to television, having first read it in 1989, before its first production. In 1993, Al Pacino committed to playing the role"
"an American family's moral defeat, as a mammoth, pioneering work of art it remains a national creative triumph."" ""The Godfather Part II"": Many believe Pacino's performance in ""The Godfather Part II"" is his finest acting work, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was criticized for awarding the Academy Award for Best Actor that year to Art Carney for his role in ""Harry and Tonto"". It is now regarded as one of the greatest performances in film history. In 2006, ""Premiere"" issued its list of ""The 100 Greatest Performances of all Time"", putting Pacino's performance at #20. Later"
"the corruption of fellow officers. In 1974, Pacino reprised his role as Michael Corleone in the sequel ""The Godfather Part II"", which was the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar; Pacino, meanwhile, was nominated a third time for an Oscar, this second nomination for the Corleone role being in the lead category. ""Newsweek"" magazine has described his performance in ""The Godfather Part II"" as ""arguably cinema's greatest portrayal of the hardening of a heart"". In 1975, he enjoyed further success with the release of ""Dog Day Afternoon"", based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz. It"
"Crossing"" (1990), ""Loose Cannons"" (1990), ""The Public Eye"" (1992) and ""Falling Down"" (1993). His last role, in 2005, was on an episode of ""Joan of Arcadia"". He taught acting for over 30 years at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, and wrote for television. Mancini was married and divorced twice, and he died of Alzheimer's disease on the day before his 75th birthday in London, Ohio. Al Mancini Alfred Benito ""Al"" Mancini (November 13, 1932 – November 12, 2007) was an American stage, television and film actor, born in Steubenville, Ohio. He was a 1950 graduate of London High School in London,"
"nominations (for playing an English teacher in ""Dead Poets Society"" (1989), and for playing a troubled homeless man in ""The Fisher King"" (1991)). In 1991, he played an adult Peter Pan in the film ""Hook"", although he had said that he would have to lose twenty-five pounds. Other roles Williams had in acclaimed dramatic films include ""Moscow on the Hudson"" (1984), ""Awakenings"" (1990), ""What Dreams May Come"" (1998), and ""Bicentennial Man"" (1999). In ""Insomnia"", Williams portrayed a writer / killer on the run from a sleep-deprived Los Angeles policeman (played by Al Pacino) in rural Alaska. Also in 2002, in"
"an appearance on the series ""Jack and Mike"" in 1986. At the age of 17, he landed a role in the movie ""Men Don't Leave"", with Jessica Lange. In the early 1990s, he was in many successful movies including ""Fried Green Tomatoes"" (1991), ""School Ties"" (1992) and ""Scent of a Woman"" (1992) with Al Pacino (receiving a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he lost to Gene Hackman for ""Unforgiven""). He was named one of the 12 Promising New Actors of 1992 in John Willis's ""Screen World"", Vol. 44. After the success of ""Blue Sky"""
"1991, Salvatores received international praise for ""Mediterraneo"", which won an Academy Award as best foreign film. It also won three David di Donatello, the most important award for Italian cinema, and a Silver Ribbon. In 1992, he released ""Puerto Escondido"", from the eponymous novel by Pino Cacucci, in which Abatantuono and Bentivoglio were joined by another standard actor for Salvatores, Claudio Bisio. The following year he directed ""Sud"", featuring Silvio Orlando, an attempt to denounce the political and social situation of the Mezzogiorno of Italy seen from the point of view of the unemployed and those at the margins of"
"film went on to be nominated for eight Academy Awards and win one. Weston then co-produced ""For Love of Ivy,"" the first major studio production to star two black actors (Sidney Poitier and Abbey Lincoln). In 1968, Weston returned to New York to produce the Broadway play ""Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?"", which launched the career of a then-unknown Al Pacino. The actor went on to win a Tony Award for his performance, even though the play ran for only 39 performances. Probably his most well-known and acclaimed film, ""Lady Sings the Blues"" came in 1972. Starring Diana Ross"
"the Best Actor Oscar for ""Save the Tiger"" (1973), becoming the first actor to achieve this rare double (the only other actors to have done so are Robert De Niro, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Spacey, and Denzel Washington). He was also nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in the controversial film ""Missing"" in 1982, and for his roles in ""Some Like It Hot"" (1959), ""The Apartment"" (1960), ""Days of Wine and Roses"" (1962), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), for which he was also awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, and ""Tribute"" (1980). He won another"